Take a look at the splendor of the Great Wall in China at night, and feel the landscape different from that in the daytime!
In summer, the Great Wall in Beijing shines under the night. You can not only see the splendor of the Great Wall at night, but also enjoy the colorful cultural activities and immerse yourself in the cultural charm intertwined with modernity and tradition.
Badaling great wall
In 2024, Badaling Night Great Wall continued the theme of "Dream Back to the Great Wall and Come to Crane from All Sides" and launched innovative performance programs to provide tourists with a brand-new night tour experience. The opening hours will last until the "Eleventh" holiday.
At the performance site of the cultural block, the original performing arts activities were fully upgraded. The performance adopts the "marching viewing" mode to lead tourists through ancient and modern times. The performance combines musical, dance, acrobatics, martial arts and other diversified art forms, and skillfully combines immersive experience with cultural values. Among them, Dreaming on the Great Wall tells the story of three young students crossing the Great Wall to the Ming Dynasty, which has great regional characteristics. The "National Wind" immersive performance "Dream Back to the Great Wall and Come to Crane from All Sides" is unique, and many programs are staged one after another at multiple points, which makes tourists dizzying. The ancient city of Chadao at the foot of the Great Wall invites tourists to a love story more than 400 years ago with a novel "Chadao Love".
These wonderful performances will not only allow tourists to follow the dancer's light pace and travel through time and space together, witness the prosperity of the tea-horse trade, and feel the beautiful scene of national integration, but also appreciate Qi Jiguang's heroic and courageous style of defending the country and inheriting the Great Wall spirit of unity and peace.
In addition to the splendid theme performances, Badaling Night Great Wall has carefully planned interesting interaction with NPC and thrilling stunt flying performances. In addition, there are a variety of unique non-legacy snacks, creative blind boxes of Great Wall bricks, and a punch-in device with full atmosphere, so that every visitor can experience it deeply and feel the charm of the Great Wall personally.
Activity time: lasts until October 6th, from 18: 30 to 21: 00.
Open Visit Paragraph: North 4th Floor → South 4th Floor
Mutianyu section of the Great Wall
Take the convenient car ferry in the scenic spot, you can easily reach the ticket gate, then walk to the next station of the cable car and embark on an unforgettable journey to the top. The closed cable car rises slowly, and it takes only about four minutes to reach the top of the Great Wall. The beautiful scenery along the way slowly unfolds like a picture scroll, which is refreshing. The setting sun melts gold, and Mu Yun combines together. Standing on the Great Wall, overlooking the sunset-stained yellow sky, every blue brick shines with golden light.
In order to further enhance the tourists' night tour experience, Mutianyu Great Wall has comprehensively upgraded the night lighting and introduced a novel interactive technology of light and shadow. When night falls, the Great Wall is even more magnificent under the bright lights, as if it were in a wonderful and cool world of light and shadow, and every moment is full of surprises and fun of exploration.
The fusion of music and light brings a brand-new experience, and the rejuvenated and upgraded walk to the city is colorful and dreamlike. Laser lamp design is simple but not simple. Space art and light and shadow blend perfectly, and the transmission of beauty is not just visual enjoyment.
The milky way flows, the night is slightly tipsy, taking family or friends into a starry movie tour on the Great Wall, or enjoying a light-chasing concert or a national wind performance will bring you a different night tour experience.
In addition, the scenic spot has specially opened a comprehensive service area, providing sufficient parking spaces to meet the parking needs of tourists. At the same time, some restaurants and cultural and creative shops along the commercial street have also extended their business hours to 9:30, providing tourists with more choices, whether they are tasting authentic food or buying special souvenirs, they can all be satisfied here.
Activity time: lasts until August 31st, Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day, from 17: 30 to 20: 30.
Open visit paragraph: Muzi No.10 → No.15 watchtower
Address: Mutianyu Village, Bohai Town, Huairou District, Beijing
Juyong Pass of Great Wall
At 7 o'clock every night, the Juyongguan Great Wall will be lit as scheduled, and the night tour mode will be started. The ancient Shi Zhuan on the Great Wall radiates soft and warm light under the light, and the beacon tower on the wall is even more solemn and mysterious in the night.
Juyongguan Scenic Area has specially launched a special tour route, which allows visitors to appreciate the majesty and mystery of the Great Wall in the interweaving of moonlight and lights. Visitors can go to Yuntai, Yong Road of Ancient Inn from No.2 parking lot, then to Beiguan Tower and No.1 Enemy Building of Dongshan Great Wall, and then turn back from No.4 Enemy Building to Beiguan Tower to watch the show.
The programs here are equally splendid, combining contemporary art and traditional culture, and showing visitors the grandeur of Juyongguan Great Wall through songs and dances, martial arts, acrobatics, traditional skills and other forms.
Here, tourists can not only walk through history, but also become a part of it. Professional travel teams turn the Great Wall into a three-dimensional picture scroll, and tourists have the opportunity to put on gorgeous costumes and perform fashion blockbusters with the Great Wall under the lens of professional photographers.
Activity time: lasting until October 12th, every Friday, Saturday and legal holidays from 18: 30 to 22: 00 (closed on the last day of legal holidays).
Opening paragraphs: Yuntai → Yong Road of Ancient Inn → Beiguan Tower → No.1 Enemy Building of Dongshan Great Wall → No.4 Enemy Building.
Address: Juyongguan Great Wall, Nankou Town, Changping District, Beijing
Simatai Great Wall
Simatai Great Wall is the only ancient Great Wall that retains the original appearance of the Ming Great Wall, and is famous for its five characteristics: danger, density, uniformity, cleverness and completeness. In 2012, Simatai Great Wall was rated as "the first of 25 scenic spots in the world not to be missed" by The Times of Britain.
Simatai Great Wall is the first Great Wall in China that is open for night tours. After nightfall, lanterns are mounted on the Great Wall of Simatai, and the bright starry sky is dotted with the night, which is in harmony with the Great Wall.
When the sun sets, you can watch a sunset on the Great Wall and the lights on in the town. When the afterglow of the setting sun dyed the sky red and the gorgeous sunset set off the horizon, the Great Wall in the distance, like a dragon, followed the dusk, leaving only a calm and quiet majesty. When the weather is fine, you can look up to the sky and see the bright starry sky. On the Great Wall, you fantasize about the cross-time dialogue between the Milky Way and the long river of history, and a few jathyapple bring you back to earth.
Time: lasting until October, 18:00-21:40.
Open visit section: East 5th floor → East 6th floor.
Address: North of Simatai Village, Gubeikou Town, Miyun District, Beijing
